| clinical utility of the mood and anxiety symptom questionnaire (masq) in a sample of young help-seekers. | the overlap between depression and anxiety has led some researchers to conclude that they are manifestations of a broad, non-specific neurotic disorder. however, others believe that they can be distinguished despite sharing symptoms of general distress. the tripartite model of affect proposes an anxiety-specific, a depression-specific and a shared symptoms factor. watson and clark developed the mood and anxiety symptom questionnaire (masq) to specifically measure these tripartite constructs. ear ... | 2007 | 17868477 |
| health-related quality of life of overweight and obese children. | the negative effects of childhood overweight and obesity on quality of life (qol) have been shown in clinical samples but not yet in population-based community samples. | 2005 | 15632338 |
| the contribution of perceived control of stressful life events and thought suppression to the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in both non-clinical and clinical samples. | the two studies presented in this paper investigated the impact of controllable versus uncontrollable stressful life events (sle) and low versus high thought suppression upon symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) in both a non-clinical sample (study 1) and a clinical sample (study 2). the sample for study 1 consisted of 269 undergraduate university students and the sample for study 2 consisted of 91 participants obtained from the obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders foundation of ... | 2003 | 12826088 |
| parent-reported health status of overweight and obese australian primary school children: a cross-sectional population survey. | childhood overweight/obesity is associated with poor physical and psychosocial health in clinical samples. however, there is little information on the health status of overweight and obese children in the community, who now represent a large proportion of the child population. we examined parent-reported child health and well-being and parent concern about child weight by body mass index (bmi) category in a population sample of primary school children. | 2002 | 12032758 |